The Baker’s Man/ Jennifer Moorman

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Author:

Jennifer Moorman was born and raised in Tifton,
Georgia and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
She majored in English/Creative writing at MTSU. I picked this up from her
website. “My life is a
writer’s journey through the ramblings in my cluttered mind, the stories
demanding to be written, my travels along forest pathways, and my search for
the ever-elusive unicorn and the end of the rainbow.”

“Moorman weaves the tale of a young woman whose grandmother’s
secret—and the ancestry of her grandfather—are about to change her life
forever.”

Anna O’Brien has inherited more than her grandmother’s talent
for baking and her bakery. When her boyfriend of two years accepts an
architectural job with a firm in NapaValley, with no plans to
include her, she is forced to face an uncertain future. One late night in the
bakery with her best friend, Lily, they have a little too much to drink and
follow a mysterious recipe of her grandmothers with a secret ingredient. The
next morning she wakes up to find Elijah, a handsome stranger, baking donuts in
her kitchen and things rocket out of control.

Appraisal:

I found
this book to be a magically enchanting tale that weaves in just enough reality
to suspend my disbelief. Anna has always lived her life to please others, but
when Baron decides to take a job across the country, she decides she needs to
take charge of her own life and follow her heart. Anna has internal and
external forces pulling her in different directions; she knows she wants to
continue making pastries, but perhaps not in her hometown of Mystic Water.
There is a perfect place by the sea and an offer has been made, but to move
there will disappoint the hometown folks, her mother, and her friends. The
relationship with Baron is also unsettled, they were both comfortable with each
other and neither is ready to give it up, although they know it is over. Anna’s
biggest problem is she is not ready to believe this mysterious force that draws
her to Elisha is real, she doesn’t trust the magic. When her friend, Tessa,
falls head over heels for Elisha, Anna tries to take a step back. This story
explores friendship, forgiveness, and the possibilities of following your own
heart. When Elisha, her dough-boy, starts growing into his own person things
get very complicated and there are a couple of unexpected twists. The dialogue
reads true and humor is expertly woven into this heartwarming journey.

I couldn’t
help but love Jennifer Moorman’s prose, each of her characters and places had distinctive
smells that Anna identified with them. Her mother smelled of ripe cherries or
rotten cherries depending on her mood, her father like green pine or freshly
cut grass. Elisha smelled of rosemary, cinnamon, spicy chocolate and melted
sugar. How could you not love that?

This is one of those stories I had trouble assigning a genre
to, so I went back to Donna Fasano’s guest post defining romance and chick-lit.
I decided it was chick-lit with a strong romantic element, although I do not
claim to be an expert on this subject. But I will tell you, if you like foodie
fiction or chick-lit you will love this story.

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